A more heavily redacted version of the agreement was released two weeks ago. The latest one made available is less blacked-out, but much of the document is still not visible. According to the available information, HTC and Apple will have nonexclusive access to some of each others’ patents. Apple agreed not to sue over certain products, but its design patents appear to be excluded. Blog FOSS Patents’ posted the PDF and an analysis focusing on the scope of the agreement:

The rubber-banding (‘381) patent can’t be worked around without losing its key benefit, but it obviously doesn’t cover other (inferior) forms of scrolling on a multi-touch device, such as the “blue glow”. For tap-to-zoom it appears that infringement of the ‘163 patent can be avoided without any significant impact on usability. An injunction over this patent would be next to meaningless apart from a purely symbolical significance. The tricky part is the pinch-to-zoom API (‘915) patent. As I predicted, Apple is disputing that Samsung’s purported workaround steers clear of infringement.

OverviewHTC Corporation is a Taiwan-based mobile manufacturing company that specializes in designing and manufacturing OEM-branded mobile devices.
Founded in 1997 by Cher Wang and Peter Chou, HTC initially stood for High-Tech Computer Corporation and manufactured notebook computers.
Since launching its own brand in late 2006, the company has introduced hundreds of HTC-branded products around the world. Its …